Bernard Sanders

The Vermont independent's inquiries prompt Smithsonian officials to promise more business in U.S-made products....

By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Florida Senator Bill Nelson and a dozen of his colleagues urged federal officials on Thursday to use new regulations to curb speculators from driving up gas prices. “Speculators are...

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On another comment thread, Bruce L. writes: I think I may have spotted the first potential independent/ third party candidate that could enter the fray of the 2012 election... Independent Senator Bernie Sanders from the great Socialist Republic of...

Sen. Bernie Sanders became a sensation on cable television and new media outposts like Twitter with his filibuster Friday of a proposal to extend the Bush-era tax cuts to all Americans. Twitter lit up with highlights from Sanders’ (an Independent......

Oprah says her heart's been broken twice. In other wold news, Regis Philbin retires....

Meet the new gas prices, same as the old gas prices. For another week in a row in New Jersey, a gallon of regular gas has shot up, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic. It says the average price of gas Friday was $3.82, an eight-cents increase over the past...

by Michael Muskal The Senate began deliberations on its version of a healthcare overhaul today, with Democrats searching for a bill that will be supported by 60 senators. Returning from the Thanksgiving holiday, the Senate slowly began the debate on......

While many Americans were sleeping, at 1:18 this morning, the Senate cleared President Obama's healthcare bill over a procedural hurdle, presaging a Christmas Eve vote. Or, more accurately, Senate Democrats did. On a strict 60-40 vote, Democrats, joined...

by Frank James Everywhere you turn here in the nation's capital, there seems a growing consensus that congessional Democrats could gain more than 20 House seats and maybe, just maybe enough in the Senate to get to the magic 60......

Leave it to a guy from Brooklyn???s James Madison High School -- Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, in this case -- to have a shot at losing elections in the same lifetime to a professional wrestler (Jesse Ventura) and to......